learning & being

You can’t have an inclusive Toronto without an anti-ableist Toronto

Also death; awful parents; therapy feedback forms; radical allowing; beyond tolerance; communities; BIRTHDAY QUILT!; choice board; birth in birthday

Jun 18

How parenting A- includes a lot of performing for strangers

Also strollers and wheelchairs and neurodivergence; bad bill; B35 school; flying; saris; Ross Greene and screen time; scale of ABA to...; podcast?

Jun 8

Critiques of the term "invisible disability"

Also kind strangers; amazing AAC usage; Pictello; podcasts; not therapies; having to teach it all; pointing; educating everyone; public schools

May 27

Healthcare costs for one relatively privileged family...

Also identity language?; incompetence and telepathy; kind of parent; Spotify as communication; the opposite of unschooling

May 19

How things can play out for my kid under authoritarianism (and how we all made this happen)

Also texting; love songs; strollers and Medicaid; dad's birthday; AI surveillance; motor planning when mad

May 8

On love and those buying into "profound autism" and surviving fascism

And ropes, mutual aid, building across difference, strangers, reading, and race

Apr 25

On Devon Price - take their work with a large grain of salt

Also request for Brooklyn connections, permissive parenting, personal troubadour, GPS tracker alt, maturity and growth, IEP meeting, eggs.

Apr 10

We MUST proactively talk about this moment with our non-speaking kids .. but how?

And ABA everywhere; video commentary; choreography level up!; telling time; keyboard feedback; long pauses; amazing Black studies curriculum

Apr 2

Why Incremental change F* You

also BIG WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT; love; 2E bullshit, abolitionist inclusion, "avenue" and more

Mar 28

On moving past the “toileting / non-toileting” binary into skills for all autistic kids

Also keyboards speak; Hope canvas; medical models and heteronormativity; more growing; beautiful letter; freedom

Mar 20

Spotify as communication

And growth!; can't do activities; what is school for; goals and parent letter for IEP meeting

Mar 6

On “non-speaking” vs “Unable to get his mouth to say what he’s thinking”

And also what's $800b?; kids "catching up"??; penpaling the revolution; decomposing; AAC phrases; blog without words

Feb 27

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